[...] Although Jane’s father, and my own, had died the previous year (in 1971), our mothers were still living: Jane’s in a nursing home in upstate New York, and mine at the Butts family home in Sayre, Pennsylvania, which is only 18 miles from Elmira and just south of the New York State border. [...]

[...] At once Jane and I named them Billy Two and Mitzi: Billy Two, obviously, because he was also a tiger cat and bore a strong resemblance to the dead Billy; Mitzi because with her longer, black and white fur she at once reminded me of the Mitzi who’d belonged to the Butts’s next-door neighbors when I was a child. [...]

[...] Accordingly, then, a Jane Roberts Butts and a Robert F. Butts live in that apartment I’m creating. [...]

Linda................Butts

[...] And where people believe in things like ghosts and demons all on the same line, seeing little difference between them and I imagine in my most schizoid (Doug—“that’s what I said”) moments that there is a woman called Jane Butts in a strange, funny little town in a completely fantastic place called Elmira, New York. [...]

(On the above date I attended a session, the 37th, with the principals Jane and Robbie Butts.

OCTOBER 8, 1965 FRIDAY     REPORT BY JANE BUTTS

[...] And J. R. B. can be the initials of Jane Roberts Butts. [...]

[...] The object is the flap of a letter that my nephew Douglas Butts and myself wrote on last Sunday, April 3, at my parents’ home in Sayre, PA. [...]

[...] Thus the most recent time that Jane had a chance to speak at length to Aunt Mabel involved the funeral of a member of the Butts family. [...]

[...] So we speculated that B referred to Butts, L to lawn, and G to glass. [...]

[...] Got the name Linda, and the last name, which I think I’ve forgotten—don’t think it was Butts. [...]

INTRODUCTORY NOTES
BY ROBERT F. BUTTS

[...] In the one I come from, I also know Jane and Rob Butts. [...]

[...] Butts... [...]

Robert F. Butts (1919–): Imaginary Character. [...]

(R Butts

INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY ROBERT F. BUTTS

Robert F. Butts
Elmira, N.Y.
November 1985